At Home With COUNTRY MUSIC'S HOTTEST STARS!
LIVIN' LARGE
When the music stops, the stars know how to kick back: Pam Tillis goes
fishing, Clint Black plays tourist, Travis Tritt sleeps late, Brooks &
Dunn roar, Suzy Bogguss babies her bouquets, and more 4
FAMILIES
Reba McEntire is country's reigning queen and most cheerfully driven
perfectionist 12
Alan Jackson calls his lake house the Real World, but his life there is
pure fairy tale 20
Vince Gill and his wife, Janis, and daughter Jenny make music at home
too—some of it pretty wacky 26
Tanya Tucker casts off her tabloid past for a fast-paced career as a
hardworking single mom 30
Randy Travis knows his personal life keeps people talking, but at home
in Hawaii, he couldn't care less 36
Waylon Jennings has traded in his outlaw ways for a mellower role as
husband and dad 40
A DAY IN THE LIFE
Running on caffeine and a mint chaw, Aaron Tippin builds his dream house
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STYLE
Manuel puts the rhinestone in cowboy (and cowgirl) as country's most
colorful couturier 46
Maria Smoot artfully lops the locks and wins the hearts of Nashville's
best-tressed stars 59
Trisha Yearwood wanted "a bus that was just for me." So she designed
one, complete with queen-size bed, big-screen TVs, full kitchen and
shower 60
ROOTS
Ricky Van Shelton is a major star in Nashville, but back home in Grit,
Va., he's still Jenks and Eloise Shelton's teasable little rascal 62
Lorrie Morgan returns to the Rayman, where she grew up backstage with
Dad and the other Opry stars 68
Tracy Lawrence earned his first hits wielding a bat for Foreman (Ark.)
High School. At their old hangout, he and his baseball buddies reunite
with their coach 72
Sammy Kershaw was 12, fatherless and primed for trouble when local
bandleader J.B. Perry offered him another path. Back in Kaplan, La.,
Kershaw confronts, and begins to conquer, his past 74
Alison Krauss still loves to improvise in her parents' kitchen in
Champaign, Ill., with bluegrass guitarist John Pennell, her childhood
mentor 78
Lee Roy Parnell learned to swing—Texas-style—with a little help from his
"Uncle" Bob Wills 80
HARD TIMES
John Berry had a No. 1 single ("Your Love Amazes Me"), a new baby and
brain surgery all within 13 days last spring. Even more amazing: his
recovery 82
John and Audrey Wiggins found success as a duo just as they lost their
biggest fan, their dad 88
Joe Diffie was crushed in 1989 when his son was born with Down syndrome.
Since then, both have grown 90
FANTASTIC FANS
For Wynonna, and most country stars, kinship with fans is a joy of the
job 94
QUEENS OF COUNTRY
From Kitty and Patsy to Dolly and Emmylou, Nashville's enduring women
sing with a fervor and savvy all their own 96
MARTY'S TREASURES
"Keeper of the Stuff" Marty Stuart opens his cache of country
collectibles and shares his candid photos of famous friends 100
THE ULTIMATE HAT ACT
We help Neal McCoy and Mark Chesnutt top themselves 104
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